A
mere
2
millimeters
may
separate
us
from
other
members
of
the
animal
kingdom.
That’s
the
approximate
thickness
of
the
cerebral
cortex,
a
sinuously
folded
sheet
of
tissue
on
the
outermost
surface
of
the
brain
where
the
neural
machinery
resides
for
many
capabilities,
such
as
language
and
reasoning,
that
we
think
of
as
distinctively
human.
Pasko
Rakic,
M.D.,
Ph.D.,
the
chair
and
Dorys
McConnell
Duberg
Professor
of
Neurobiology,
has
spent
a
lifetime
deciphering
how
the
nervous
system
cells
present...